What a weekend...

We had a really good 4th of July weekend. We started it off by taking the boys to a place called Davis Farmland. They had all types of farm animals that you could feed there and a decent size water park for young kids. They absolutely loved it. We went with a family we met at church which have kids around the age of the boys. They then cooked out for us and had a great time just relaxing at the table (it was just so rough to eat steak lol.



Then on Saturday we went to Maine to visit his oldest sister. This is just a picture we took about 7 or 8 minutes from their house. It was so beautiful. Raider had a blast swimming and playing fetch with a stick. It was a really nice and relaxing day....but driving home was anything but. We had just crossed over the Maine/New Hampshire border when a car all of a sudden got right behind us and put his brights on. So Andrew got over a lane to let them just go by us. Well that car got behind us again, so Andrew tapped his brakes to try and get his attention. We had no idea what this guy was doing. Well the guy speed up and got in front of us. He was going about 75-80 mph and within 2 seconds we were down to 15 mph on the interstate!! I don't know how (except by the grace of God) did we not have an accident either from the front or the back. So that guy speeds up again and does the exact same thing AGAIN! This time I was able to look in the backseat (as it was like 9:00 at night at this point) and saw 2 kids. I was like are you serious?!?! So I called 911 immediately and told them everything so they transferred me to the state tropopers and got all the information we could give them. So we just pray the law handled it. Those poor kids!!


Anyway so we made it home safe and sound. Yesterday the church had a special service just for Andrew. His sisters' and cousin and parents came. They called it 'installing' him into the church. He had to teach a lesson in front of the congregation for kids and then sing a song that basically told the congregation what his mission for the church was. And then the pastor gave him like 5 presents. It was really awesome. We ended it perfectly...by having a huge cookout of course!!! It was really nice to see how awesome the church supports Andrew and his own family as well. Well I'm pretty sure that's it. I miss y'all and love you very much!!

Anniversary...

Thank you all who wished us a happy 1st anniversay. We really appreciated it! We had a very nice, relaxing anniversary. We had plans to go canoeing and just be outdoors but things come up and changed our plans for us...or just put our plans on hold I should say. We ended up just relaxing all weekend and having fun. We watched movies on Saturday together and Sunday after church we grilled out with a TON of food...I just hated to eat so much lol. Then we danced to the song Andrew sang for me and the song we had our first dance too. Andrew thinks we should do that every year on our anniversary...I was like that is really sweet! We ended the day by taking a really long, peaceful walk. We had a really great day overall.

Andrew is really enjoying his job. It's so refreshing to see him happy and so passionate again! I'm not really loving my job but at least it is a job so I am thankful.

For any of you who didn't get the email from Jodie, please pray for Joylynn. She's having/had some tests done within the next week or so. We just lift her up to the Lord! Well I look forward to hearing how everyone is doing. Love you all very much!

It was good..

We had a relaxing and enjoyable weekend. Andrew started work last Wednesday and has fallen in love with his position. Everyone at the church is so awesome and very willing to help out with anything needed. Friday night Stacy and her dog Dixie came over and stayed the night with us. We had a good time catching up. On Saturday we went to go see THe Proposal. I was kind of disappointed. They had a great idea and awesome actors and the ending just kind of flopped. Oh well, we still enjoyed it. Then Saturday night we went out and celebrated Andrew and his sister Jen getting a new job. She is going to be teaching first grade next year as an official teacher. She is beyond excited!! Sunday we went to church and just observed how everything operates right now and talked with all the volunteers. I guess it doesn't matter how they run things because after Andrew gets done with all his plans it'll look like a completely different church lol (which they're all awesome changes)!! Then we went to Will's bday party who turned 6 on Friday. We had a half bday party half Father's day celebration with the entire family. It was nice...except for the weather. It's literally been raining since last Wednesday I believe...ugh!! OH well, everything looks exceptionally green and beautiful so that's a plus! I think even Raider's getting tired of the rain because he can't enjoy his yard to go run and play in. I think that's about it for now. We love y'all very much and miss you! Hope everyone is doing great!

Awesome news...

Andrew finally got the children's pastor position and officially started today! I can't believe it has taken this long but God had a plan! We are so thankful for everyone's prayers. We love you all very much! It's just a huge weight lifted off of us! Praise God!!! Love y'all!!


(Sorry not much to talk about besides that)!!

I know...I know

It has been a tiny too long since my last entry. Yes I am alive I promise...we all are and are doing well. Let's see...it feels like we've been busy. I don't remember if I wrote this before or not but I joined a softball team up here. We're so far 4-0!! Our last game we won 16-1...it was a blast lol and they finally gave me a chance at 3rd, it was awesome even though I didn't get a ball.

I just got back from a Women of Faith conference in Connecticut. It was truly amazing. There's this lady that has 2 masters degrees and is a psychologist. Just from listening to her talk a couple of different times, I feel like I was in a personal session with her lol. I truly learned a lot about myself this weekend which was amazing.

Andrew had an interview this past week with another company so we're crossing our fingers on that. The final vote is tonight at 6. So assuming everything goes as expected, he'll be employed by the end of the night PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!! Thank you all so much for your prayers. We really appreciate all of them.

Well I finally went to my 1st Red Sox game. I'm not gonna lie for the first 7 innings I was disappointed because of how much people talked up the fans. My expectations were set really high and I didn't get it. Well apparently that was because Lester had a no-hitter against the Rangers going into the 7th inning. After Michael Young had a hit everyone changed drastically. It was hilarious how different it became. It was really hard to root for the Rangers when they were getting their butts kicked but nonetheless I had a great time. As you can see I go a lot of confused from the shirt and the hat lol. Well that's really about it with us for now. We miss you all very much and love you!!!

Weekend

Well even though there has been a death in the family, we've had a pretty good weekend considering. Friday night we got home from work and was cleaning up fast as we had plans. The next thing we knew the grandma that lives underneath us was knocking at our door. Her husband had a heart attack the night before and she drove him to the hospital. Well she came back and locked herself out. So Andrew and I were doing everything we could to get her back in. This 90 year old woman said to us, "well I guess I could just stay outside until my son gets home"...we were like yeah not likely. Luckily Andrew found an open window in the bathroom so we were able to get her in lol. Then we went over to the pastor's house (the one Andrew is applying for) and had supper with him and his wife as well as the youth pastor and he wife. It was very nice and relaxing. I hadn't felt that comfortable in quite a while around a pastor. It really was awesome. He did his seminary at southwestern in Ft. Worth and she went to school at UNT...no wonder I liked them lol. They just really liked Andrew and are really pulling for him.

We spent all day yesterday at Andrew's parents' house as his all his sisters were in town for the oldest sister birthday. It was nice and relaxing! Then took Raider to the lake to swim for a little while and found 8 ticks on the both of us...it was ridiculous! Anyway, hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend and love y'all very much!!

Prayer

I ask you all to please pray for Andrew and his family as we have had a member pass away. Andrew's grandma who has been very ill for some time passed away late last night. It was Andrew's dad's mother. She is much better now and everyone realizes that but nonetheless it is still hard to say goodbye. Thank you all very much and love y'all!!!!!